HeyJaredSands & Semilla
Seeds for sovereignty: Cacao, rituals, and conversations from a daughter of immigrants and professional job hopper. For anyone planting seeds for a life without extraction.
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Season 3: Ep 7🌾 Cacao, Reciprocity, and Legacy: What It Means to Thrive, Exchange, and Become (opens the original)
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So I originally wanted to start this article, this essay, with an exploration of cacao because now that I have been in this business for almost a year and have received questions and curiosities from people at the farmers market about what cacao is and isn’t, and how cacao is different from chocolate and coffee and all these other plants and substances, I wanted to continue exploring that.I wanted to help explain the cultural nuance as well as the process of cacao.But as I hold cacao in my mind,
Nothing Is a Choice (And That Might Be the Point) (opens the original)
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There is a mobile home community about forty-five minutes from where I live. Two bedrooms, one bathroom, and sometimes ten people inside it. I go there for work — I coordinate a mobile home repair program for a county here in Northern Virginia — and every time I leave, I carry something back with me that has nothing to do with repair schedules or inspection checklists.I don’t know if the people I meet there have made peace with their lives or simply adjusted their expectations until the two beca
We Don't Need to Deserve More. We Need More. (opens the original)
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I want to talk about something that took me a long time to actually believe, not just say out loud: in almost every area of life, we don't need less of what we think we need. We need more. And I don't mean *deserve* more — deserving implies you have to earn it first. I mean we actually, structurally, physically need more, the way a fire needs more wood, not because it's greedy, but because that's what keeps it burning.Subscribe nowI'm five feet tall, hourglass, pear-shaped, curvy
Ashburn Eatloco Northern Virginia Today 🌿 (opens the original)
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Hi friends! If you haven't met me in person and are in the northern Virginia area come on out to Ashburn! I'll be here from 9am - 2pm at the Eatloco Farmer's market.I sell hand-made cacao drinking blends (grounded cacao herbs and spices ready to drink in the morning or night time. Add in with your coffee or milk/creamer of choice), hand-poured cocoa scented candles, tote bags and stickers all hand-designed!This may be my last farmers market of 2026 so stay tuned for an update on my online shop w
Kairos vs. Chronos: The Greeks Had Two Words for Time, and I Think We Only Kept One (opens the original)
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So this episode is all about time, and I know that might seem kind of random. I often think about how I come up with these episodes, and it’s usually just these realizations I start to have about my day-to-day — I kind of observe myself from the outside, almost an out-of-body thing. I was walking my dogs the other day and started thinking about this feeling of, when is the right time to do something? Or honestly, what even is time?Subscribe nowBecause here’s the thing — there’s th
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